Country of origin England Founder Martin Hooker | Location London Founded 1980 | |
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Genre Punk, rock, blues, soul, reggae, psychedelic, folk Official website secretrecordslimited.com Artists Shakatak, The Exploited, Twisted Sister, Jill Saward, Wattie Buchan Albums Under the Blade, The Album After the Last One, Our Last Album?, The Good - The Bad & The 4‑Ski, Live at Freakscene | ||
Intro line secret records
Secret Records & Films is a British independent record label based in London. The label currently specialises in live releases on CD & DVD as well as older releases ranging across a number of genres including blues, reggae, rock, rock 'n' roll, psychedelic, soul and punk. The label's roster includes releases by John Mayall, Bert Jansch, Happy Mondays, Geno Washington, The Toy Dolls, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Fastway, The Exploited, Hawkwind, Ike Turner, InMe, Lee Perry, LA Guns, Amen and many more.
Originally starting as a punk label, Secret Records was created in 1980 with the first release being The Exploited's Punks Not Dead which reached number 20 in the UK album charts. As the 1990s came around the catalogue of Secret Records became less rooted in punk and become broader in genre choice like pop/rock group Lovely Previn's Shatterproof whose singer/songwriter/violinist Alicia Previn is the daughter of Sir André Previn. After 2000 the label began concentrating more on music DVD releases as well as live CD releases and continues to do so to this day.